What I did today 2012-2014

[Loudbarker1]

Sowed the spirng sowing of brioad beans yesterday in situ. Ground has had an inch layer iof compost since autumn and then under black weed surpressing membrane (not sure hsi had really worked) but there were wornmm casts everywhere and it looked relly healthy. Just dibbed 3 inch holes, bunged them in, covered over and rolled back the membrane to be removed once tehy are gerninated.

Also cut back recently potted blackcurrents planting 6 lots of trimmings in smaller pots - if all goes well I wll end up with about 15 blackcurrent plants.

Otherwise too much rain and too many children's parties.

[Noosner]

Leeks on windowsill (Pandora) have started to poke through today!

[Sheneval]

Mine too and my sweet peas - when did you sow yours?

[ugley_matt]

Saturday as instructed by Monty we rearranged a flower bed, moved some shrubs around, dug it all over, added compost and planted new shrubs and it actually looks like a proper bed now. Need to plant some summer bulbs and maybe some poppies.
Sunday, Kids and wife were out so i got the conservatory roof cleaned. Then the annual shed clear out, emptied to all outside, thew away old rubbish, and converted an old kitchen worktop into a potting bench for me and my 4 year old to sow our seeds in the dry.

[Yorkshire.Dave]

Dug up a gravel path in the garden today and dug over the soil to create a new veg patch for my new sweetcorn seeds I have just bought then it started snowing so gave up...lol

[traceys plot]

planted out 16 sugar snap peas, two strawberry pots, sowed kale and chard seed. collected 3 eggs x

[Bren In Pots]

Laid a quarry tile path between the veg beds I've moved then covered the soil with cardboard.

[Two_Sheds]

- planted out 3 trays of autumn-planted garlic
- and a row of peas, sown 3 weeks ago indoors
- scrapped the Chinese veg, which have bolted
- pulled out all the dead nettles, groundsel & speedwell that's flowering
- took more sacks of leaves up to the lotty: left them piled on wet newspapers, on the grassy verges to kill that off, ready for planting more flowers
- cut some PSB & leeks
- had a sort out in the gh, everything got a showering of seaweed potion
- cleaned out the guinea hutch, took 2 buckets of manure & bedding to the lotty
- collected another bucket of seaweed, spread it as a surface mulch on the beds
- ditto with Starbucks grinds, that went on the new brassica beds
- finished cutting down the raspberry canes, sweetcorn & sunflower stalks*
- chitted the rest of my pea seed: I'm going all out on peas this year
- moved the just-appeared Primo, leeks & onions out of the heated prop & into the unheated greenhouse
- sowed some hardy annuals (cornflowers)
- cut a bagful of winter veg to make Lotty Stew
- met the Garden Organic lady for coffee: she has really enthused me, I can't wait to get cracking
- met the Chairman Of All Lotties, who approached me to become Site Sec. Am musing on it


* I leave them standing all winter, so they are easier to pull up. They also provide hibernation for overwintering ladybirds etc, and they filter the winter gales to some extent, protecting the plot

The weeds are really minimal this year: I know we're having a cold spring, but even the hardiest ones, the dead nettles etc, are fewer than usual. I put it down to having continual mulch cover on all the soil: anything, chopped weeds, chopped up crops, stalks, seaweed, coffee, newspapers ... it's all been left on bare soil to stop weeds germinating.
Works brilliantly.

[KittyColdNose]

Went to work today
Had to pootle home in a blizzard and there is about an inch of snow - it's still falling. What's Aberdeen like AP?

[Aberdeenplotter]

cold and white

[Likac66]

Been in the greenhouse this afternoon to find peas and broad beans finally coming through steadily. Also cabbage and purple cauliflower seedlings looking nice.

Sowed more pea seeds this afternoon:
24 shiraz (purple) mange tout
24 oregon mange tout
24 purple podded peas
14 dwarf peas meteor (free packet with GYO magazine)

They're all being started in the greenhouse.

[green fingered]

Finished moving 10 tonnes of topsoil from front garden to back garden to fill up the new raised beds, didn't help that the wheelbarrow decided to have a slow puncture. Took old greenhouse down and done foundations for new greenhouse just have to cement it in then put the new one up next weekend.

[bramble]

My peas which i sowed about three weeks ago are up and ready to go outdoors.
Some brocolli and cauli up and looking good.
Loads of bedding dahlia seeds waiting to be potted on.
Can't believe how quick they germinated.
All indoors in the conservatory at the moment.

[bramble]

Potted on all my tomato and pepper plants today.
This is the third potting on of my tomatoes and the second for the peppers.
Plants atre getting bigger and stronger but they are still in need of lots of bright sunshiney days.

[binley100]

Planted out second sowing of broadies.....
planted out rocket tatties ......
cleared leaves and weed out of the pond ......
sowed some carrots in lottie gh .......